Skeptikeren

lørdag, mai 05, 2007

Atheist's Wager

The Atheist's Wager is an atheistic response to Pascal's Wager. While Pascal suggested that it is better to take the chance of believing in a God that might not exist rather than to risk losing infinite happiness by disbelieving in a god that does, the Atheist's Wager suggests that:

You should live your life and try to make the world a better place for your being in it, whether or not you believe in God. If there is no God, you have lost nothing and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is a benevolent God, he will judge you on your merits and not just on whether or not you believed in him.

fredag, mai 04, 2007

Republican Candidates Don't Believe in Evolution

glass illusion

Svindel og bedrag – et intervju med Gordon Stein

Hva driver en svindler? Hvorfor og hvordan lar vi oss lure? Og hva er de ”gode” svindelhistoriene? Under tyveårsjubiléet for skeptikerbevegelsen i 1996, gjorde jeg dette intervjuet med Gordon Stein, som døde av lungekreft noen få dager etterpå. Et oppslagsverk om svindel – Encyclopedia of Hoaxes – ble et av de siste bidragene fra skeptikeren og ateisten Gordon Stein.

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torsdag, mai 03, 2007

www.TIX.com - It's the Ticket!

www.TIX.com - It's the Ticket!: "Independent Investigations Group $50,000 Paranormal Challenge

CFI's own Independent Investigations Group recently announced it has increased its Paranormal Challenge reward to $50,000. Anyone who can demonstrate paranormal ability in a scientifically designed test is eligible to win the reward. Several have attempted to take our money and failed. Worldwide, paranormal claimants have never passed a well designed test of their abilities. While parlor tricks and cold reading techniques have served to foster the general pubic's belief in psychic (and other) abilities, they have thus far been insufficient to fool legitimate investigators."

louis theroux weird weekend, bible bashers (part 1)

Partene 2 til 6 er også på Youtube.

Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America

Viking Visitors to North America

BULL$#!+ - Mother Theresa

Hitchens on Tucker 29NOV06

Man vet aldri med Hitchens, han kan være helt forferdelig og han kan være helt super. Her heller han mot super.

onegoodmove: More Christopher Hitchens

onegoodmove: More Christopher Hitchens: "More Christopher Hitchens

From Monty Python to Camus a clip from the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books - LIVE Religion & Culture Panel The link is to streaming video of the entire show.

Indigo Blues

From early childhood, I’ve always envisioned "paradise" a certain way. So, when I saw an illustration on an images website of 2 children dressed in lavender staring intently at pink-tinted clouds amongst a soothing smoothie of lavender and sea-foam green, I was hit by an intriguing "deja-vu". It was my childhood vision of "heaven". So I decided to take a look at this "Indigo" thing and see if there was something to it or not.

A few years back, I’d heard that prisons and schools had begun using muted green on the walls, it had a soothing anti-violent effect they said. I also remembered from my Early Childhood Ed. Classes that there was a theory that using light green or turquois on environments would have a calming effect on persons who had ADHD and similar challenges. Ok, so is that what heaven will be? All lavender-green and nicey-nicey?

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Jeg er glad for at jeg aldri ble utsatt for dette tullet som barn.

onsdag, mai 02, 2007

Nick Gisburne: Re: The atheist's nightmare: the banana

Denne blir helt ok litt lenger inn i videoen.

A look into the future that never was

Postcards Show the Year 2000 (circa 1900)

A Quick Stroll on the Water

Paleo-Future reader Tom T. sent me an amazing collection of postcards from the dawn of the twentieth century that depict what life would be like in the year 2000. According to Tom the postcards were originally featured here but have since been removed. The site claimed that the postcards were produced by Hildebrands (a leading German chocolate company of the time).

tirsdag, mai 01, 2007

Jakten på den VIRKELIGE Jesus

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Jakten på den VIRKELIGE Jesus

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